Wage Changes and Job Changes of Canadian Women: Evidence from the 1986-87 Labour Market Activity Survey

Michael G. Abbott and Charles Beach

Journal of Human Resources, 1994, vol. 29, issue 2

Abstract: The paper employs data from the 1986-87 Labour Market Activity Survey to investigate empirically how the wage rates of female paid workers in Canada change when they change jobs, in particular whether Canadian women realize short-run wage gains from job mobility. Following Mincer (1986), we estimate the short-run wage gain to job mobility by comparing the between-job wage changes of "current-period" job movers with the on-the-job wage growth of "next-period" job movers. The findings indicate that Canadian women who changed jobs in 1986 realized short-run wage gains of 8-9 percent, and that women who quit their first job for nonpersonal (job-related) reasons realized substantially greater wage gains than did women who quit for personal reasons, were laid off, or separated for other reasons.

Date: 1994
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